When Tim Minchin came back to Australia after years of career success (including writing the score for Matilda the Musical), he felt pretty close to being depressed. He’d endured a few crushing careers blows and felt like he’d lost his “mojo”.
“It was like someone had just sucked it out of me, like a Roald Dahl character with some sort of vacuum pump had just stolen my sparkle-arkle. And that’s all I’ve got!”
In the latest edition deputy editor Katherine Smyrk talks to the funny-man about how he got into the biz in the first place, how he eventually managed to get his sparkle-arkle back – in part something he attributes to working in Australia again, on new drama series Upright, and on his national tour. He says: “It’s good to be home.”